gymnasium quotes

Chess is the gymnasium of the mind.

-Lenin,Vladimir Ilyich originally Vladimir IlyichUlyanov
Quoted in Colin  Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

Political democracy, as it exists and practically works in America, with all itsthreatening evils, supplies atraining- school for making first-class men. It is life's gymnasium, not of good only, but of all.

-Whitman,Walt(er)
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